Soonish

Soonish

38 episodes

We can have the future we want—but we have to work for it. Soonish brings you stories and conversations showing how the choices we make together forge the technological world of tomorrow. From MIT-trained technology journalist Wade Roush. Learn more at soonishpodcast.org. We're a proud member of the Hub & Spoke audio collective! See hubspokeaudio.org.

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Bonus Episode: TASTING LIGHT Publication Day

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 5:07 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 59 seconds

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Strange Newt Worlds

Published: June 15, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 seconds

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A Soundtrack for the Pandemic

Published: May 21, 2022, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 14 seconds

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Can Albuquerque Make Room for Its Past and Its Future?

Published: May 6, 2022, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds

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How Novartis Built a Hit Factory for New Drugs

Published: March 12, 2022, noon
Duration: 1 hour 13 seconds

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How LEGO Learned to Click Again

Published: Feb. 26, 2022, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 38 seconds

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Art and Technology at Disney

Published: Feb. 12, 2022, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds

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The Reinvention of Apple

Published: Jan. 29, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 29 seconds

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This Is How You Win the Time War

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds

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Goodbye, Google

Published: June 25, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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Fusion! And Other Ways to Put the Adventure Back in Venture Capital

Published: May 18, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds

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Hope for Ultra-Rare Diseases

Published: April 30, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 20 seconds

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Technology and Education After the Pandemic

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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"We've Needed Something to Bring Us Together"

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 3:43 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 35 seconds

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The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds

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The End of the Beginning

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 1:50 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 8 seconds

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American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 10:49 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 8 seconds

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American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 31 seconds

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After Trump, What Comes Next?

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 36 seconds

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Unpeaceful Transition of Power

Published: June 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds

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Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic

Published: May 12, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 36 seconds

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Making Moonrise

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 10:40 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds

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Election Dreams and Nightmares

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds

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The Great Blue Hill Heist

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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I Have Seen the Future of Displays

Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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How to Fix Social Media

Published: July 24, 2019, 10:58 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

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The Art that Launched a Thousand Rockets

Published: May 14, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds

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A Future Without Facebook

Published: March 22, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

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The Track Not Taken

Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds

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When Minds and Machines Converge

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 38 seconds

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Making Music with Machines

Published: July 27, 2018, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 27 seconds

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Tomorrow, Today with Ministry of Ideas

Published: July 2, 2018, 4:57 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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Sci-Fi That Takes Science Seriously

Published: June 18, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes

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The Future Is Clear

Published: Feb. 17, 2018, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds

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Looking Virtual Reality In The Eye

Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 1:41 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 21 seconds

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A Space Shuttle Isn't Cool. You Know What's Cool? A Space Elevator (Soonish on Soonish)

Published: Dec. 15, 2017, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 14 seconds

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Back To The Futurists With Tamar Avishai

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Mapping the Future with Tim O'Reilly

Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 24 seconds

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Introducing Hub & Spoke

Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds

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Shadows Of August: The Eclipse Road Trip Edition

Published: Sept. 14, 2017, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 9 seconds

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Washington, We Have A Problem

Published: July 3, 2017, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds

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A Tale Of Two Bridges

Published: June 8, 2017, 4:58 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds

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Hacking Time

Published: May 11, 2017, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds

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Astropreneurs

Published: April 20, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 43 seconds

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Origin Story

Published: March 29, 2017, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds

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Meat Without The Moo

Published: March 8, 2017, 12:19 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 22 seconds

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Future Factories, With Workers Built In

Published: Feb. 22, 2017, 1:49 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds

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Can Technology Save Museums?

Published: Feb. 8, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds

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Monorails: Trains Of Tomorrow?

Published: Jan. 25, 2017, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

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How "2001" Got The Future So Wrong

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 8 seconds

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Coming Soon

Published: Dec. 10, 2016, 1:14 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds

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